Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utdoe!david From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) Subject: Re: Laser C V2.1 vs MiNT?? Message-ID: <1990Oct8.144159.12610@doe.utoronto.ca> Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto References: Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Date: Mon, 8 Oct 90 14:41:59 GMT In article Kent.Dalton@FtCollins.NCR.com writes: > >Has anyone run into any problems using Laser C V2.1 with MiNT? I'm >compiling from Gulam (not using their GEM shell) and the compiler gives >me two bombs. Also, I have a number of TOS-type utilities I've written >and they all cause MiNT to hang... > >I wrote a simple program to print out it's own argument list as a test, >it runs under TOS and hangs under MiNT. > >I'm using MiNT06 as posted to comp.binaries... FOLDR100 and MACCEL33 as >auto folder programs and have 2.5Mb of RAM. > >Has anyone else seen this?? If so, is there a workaround? If the problem >is Laser I'm guessing it's in the cinit.o (initialization object >file)... > I know that the Laser C shell is incredibly buggy. I know that Megamax also had a lot of problems with its libraries. I would be surprised here if the problems were in any way MiNT's fault, especially since Laser has had problems even with different TOS versions. Scrap laser C. There are much better packages available, some of them for free. David Megginson -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / David Megginson david@doe.utoronto.ca / / Centre for Medieval Studies meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////